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Sunday, 12 January 2014

Wine ("WINdows Emulator", aka "Wine Is Not an Emulator") and it is the Free and Open source utility that is used to run applications designed for Windows OS on Linux/Unix platform. Wine comes with a software library Winelib that lets the coders to compile Windows applications on Linux/Unix platform. Wine has now reached it's latest stable version- Wine 1.6.2 and this article will guide you to install Wine 1.6.2 stable release on your Ubuntu and Linux Mint systems.

What's New in Wine 1.6.2..?

Color management support updated to liblcms version 2.

Various bug fixes.

Fixes

DirectInput joystick timestamps are wrong

Max Payne 2: Ingame windows rendered incorrect with nvts pipe

url.dll FileProtocolHandler does not open URLs in browser.

Resident Evil 2: no sound and annoying dialog window

Add support for lcms2

Install Shield fails on 64bit multilib wine if WINEPREFIX was created by 64bit wine

GOG.com version of Soulbringer crashes on startup (GetModuleHandleExW needs to support GET_MODULE_HANDLE_EX_FLAG_PIN)

Certain games on Steam crash on start in xinput1_3 (in-game overlay enabled)

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Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you haverequested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstabledistribution that some required packages have not yet been createdor been moved out of Incoming.The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: wine1.6 : Depends: wine1.6-i386 (= 1:1.6.1-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1)E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.